Patiria miniata testis and ovary transcriptome sequencing

Sequences of expressed genes from the reproductive organs of sea stars are used to understand the ways that natural selection and gene flow affect the evolution of reproductive traits. The data are used to test ideas about how new species arise through selection on reproduction in isolated populations, and the ways that dispersal and gene flow contribute to or prevent the evolution of population differences. Intertidal sea star from the northeastern Pacific Ocean.